PC Crashing after Hotfix .257

[PrincessofErised]

I have crashed 3 times since the Hotfix .257. Not only has the game crashed, it also crashed my entire PC. The first crash happened 30 min into game play. The second happened after 10 minutes and the last crash, after about 3 minutes of game play. On the first restart, all my hotkeys were set wonky and the language was in German. The game would not reboot from the saved file, but I had a standby save that I replaced it with. The second crash had none of those problems, but again crashed the entire computer. Same with the last attempt.

[glow=red]EDIT:[/glow] Uninstalled The Long Dark from my computer. Reinstalled and substituted previous saved game folder from desktop into the new game. Played 20 minutes and PC crashed.

[Longchank]

This happens to me as well.

Open up game, then after a couple of minutes PC crashes.

At first i thought it was my GPU drivers that were out of date, but have updated everything now and still get crashes.

My Setup:

Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 10240)

Processor: Intel® Core i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.5GHz

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Going to test some things, maybe jiggle out some more information.

[Longchank]

Okay, tested with playing in DirectX 9 only. ( *-force-d3d9* in launch options )

It works now, my pc has not crashed. But will continue playing "for testing purposes"

Not a solution, but more of a fix.

[PrincessofErised]

Ok, so I also forced the game to play in Directx instead of open GL. Has not crashed so far, after about a hour of game play. So happy that I can at least play again. Thanks.

[Jeremy JPOW Powell]

Have you guys tried verifying the game cache at all?

Go to your steam library

Left click on The Long Dark

Select "Properties"

Select the "Local Files" tab

Press "verify integrity of game cache"

Jeremy

[PrincessofErised]

Check and it is 100% ok. The game is now running in forced Directx9 and no problems. It only crashes in Open GL.

[FINDarkside]

Unity games should use DirectX by default on windows. It probably uses DirectX 11 when you have no command line options.